blanket

English Online Dictionary. What means blanket‎? What does blanket mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin, likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old English blanca (“white horse”), Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”).

More at blank. Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæŋkɪt/
• Rhymes: -æŋkɪt

Noun

blanket (plural blankets)

2. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
3. A layer of anything.
4. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.

5. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Kashubian: blańket (Canada, United States)
• → Swahili: blanketi

Translations

See also

• comforter
• doona
• duvet
• quilt

Adjective

blanket (not comparable) (only attributive)

1. General; covering or encompassing everything.

   Synonyms: all-encompassing, exhaustive; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive

Translations

Verb

blanket (third-person singular simple present blankets, present participle blanketing or blanketting, simple past and past participle blanketed or blanketted)

1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
2. (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.

3. (transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
4. (transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
5. (transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
6. Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

Translations

Danish

Noun

blanket ?

1. form (document)

Old French

Noun

blanket oblique singular, m (oblique plural blankez or blanketz, nominative singular blankez or blanketz, nominative plural blanket)

1. Alternative form of blancet

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English blanket.

Noun

blanket

1. blanket